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Njemanze demolitions: Social and economic effects - Mon, 12 Jul 2010
Sweetcrude: Vanguard's monthly review of the Nigerian Energy Industry - Mon, 12 Jul 2010
Comprehensive Niger Delta Environmental Survey released - Thu, 8 Jul 2010
Revenue Watch: Nigeria Considers creating new Sovereign Wealth Fund to promote sustainavble development - Thu, 8 Jul 2010
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child concluding observations - Thu, 17 Jun 2010
Official reports, declarations, constitutions and Legislation relating to the Niger Delta - Wed, 14 Apr 2010
Fuelling Discord: Oil and Conflict in Three Niger Delta Communities - Fri, 19 Feb 2010
Citizens Report on State and Local Government Budgets in the Niger Delta - Mon, 18 Jan 2010
Port Harcourt Waterfront Urban Regeneration - Scoping Study - Thu, 7 Jan 2010
killing at will - unlawful killings by the police in nigeria - Tue, 15 Dec 2009
Nigeria’s Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: Just a Glorious Audit? - Thu, 10 Dec 2009
Report of The Technical Committee on the Niger Delta - Wed, 7 Oct 2009
Alternatives to demolitions - Abonnema Wharf Community - Fri, 4 Sep 2009
Demolition of Njemanze Waterfront - Factsheet from SDN Partners SERAC - Fri, 4 Sep 2009
Thirst for African Oil: Asian National Oil Companies in Nigeria and Angola - Wed, 2 Sep 2009
UN Habitat: Evictions and Demolitions in Port Harcourt - Tue, 1 Sep 2009
Amnesty International: Petroleum, pollution and poverty in the Niger Delta - Fri, 3 Jul 2009
Feature: Up in Smoke - Nigeria's continued reliance on gas flaring - Thu, 9 Apr 2009
Minority Rights Echoes at Nigeria's United Nations Review - Mon, 16 Mar 2009
Niger Delta's Civil Society Organisations recommendations on the human rights situation in Nigeria - Mon, 16 Mar 2009
Niger Delta's Civil Society Organisations recommendations on the human rights situation in Nigeria
In June 2008, the Federal Republic of Nigeria was elected chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council, it chaired the African Regional Preparatory Meeting on the Durban Review Process in August 2008, and hosted the last session of the 44th session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights.
These roles of Nigeria, require a critical approach of the own national human rights situation. As part of its commitment to the new human rights protection regime in the United Nations, the Universal Periodic Review, Nigeria has made several pledges and voluntary commitments against which her activities and conducts will be examined.
Civil society organisations (CSOs) from the Niger Delta in Nigeria urge the government of Nigeria to fulfil its obligations in these pledges and commitments, to cooperate with treaty monitoring bodies of the UNHRC including through submission of timely periodic reports and the implementation of concluding observations and recommendations, and to reaffirm its preparedness to welcome Special Rapporteurs to visit Nigeria in order to carry out their respective mandates without interference.
The CSOs are concerned of ongoing human rights violations in the Niger Delta. The Niger Delta Region, the epicentre of oil exploitation and exploration has over twenty million in population such as Ijaw, Ogoni, Itsekiri, Urhobos, and has suffered monumental maltreatment through political/economic marginalization, violence and environmental degradation. With this ascendance of oil, the political elites of the majority tribes, who control the region in complicity with the oil companies, began the process of enacting dubious laws, aimed at transferring the wealth of the Niger Delta to their territories, whilst providing weak regulatory frameworks for the companies to operate.
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